Franco-Prussian War: in the siege of Paris. a surgeon of the Garde Nationale (formerly a professor at the Ecole de Médecine) meets an army surgeon, who is one of his former students. Coloured transfer lithograph by Draner (J. Renard), 1871.

  • Draner, 1833-1926.
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[1871?]
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21933i
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Franco-Prussian War: in the siege of Paris. a surgeon of the Garde Nationale (formerly a professor at the Ecole de Médecine) meets an army surgeon, who is one of his former students. Coloured transfer lithograph by Draner (J. Renard), 1871. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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In the background are bodies of dead horses and people, and ruined buildings of Paris. On the left is a retired professor of surgery and member of the Légion d'Honneur who has joined the Garde Nationale, a reserve militia re-mobilised owing to the war with Prussia. On the right is a younger man, his former pupil, now serving as an army surgeon

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Paris (16 Rue du Croissant) : L'Éclipse, [1871?] (Paris : Imp. Coulboeuf)

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1 print : transfer lithograph, with watercolour ; border 22.6 x 15.7 cm

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Souvenirs de Siége de Paris. Chirurgiens de la Garde Natle. & de L'Armée. Cet amphithèâtre est plus vaste q'uà l'Ecole-de-Médecine n'est-ce pas cher maître? Draner. Bears number: 23

References note

Jean Adhémar and Jacques Lethève, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome VII, Paris 1954, pp. 75-76, no. 23 ("Souvenirs du Siège de Paris, Les défenseurs de la capitale..., au bureau de l'Éclipsé, vers 1871. Couv. et trente et une pl. coul. de sujets militaires humoristiques …") or nos. 21-22 ("21. Souvenirs du siège de Paris. Les soldats de la République ... au bureau de l'Eclipse, vers 1871 : Frontisp. et trente et une pl., lithogr. coloriées. … 22. Siège de Paris, au bastion, éd. de l'Éclipsé, 1871.")

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Wellcome Collection 21933i

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